NordART

Photo: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard. Concert at the NordART centre during Ultima 2023

You can find the NordART centre on the 4th floor of the Norwegian Academy of Music. The centre borrows its name from the Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim. Nordheim (1931-2010) was known for his boundary-breaking artistic practice and inquisitive attitude towards music, from which NordART drew inspiration.

NordART aims to facilitate projects created by fellows and faculty members in practice-oriented musicology, artistic research, and pedagogical development work. At NordART, we also want these three research and development branches to enrich each other and work together. The centre has prepared descriptions of what pedagogical development work, artistic research, and practice-oriented music science can be at the Norwegian Academy of Music:

• Artistic research/Artistic development work (ansatt.nmh.no)
• Pedagogical development work (ansatt.nmh.no)
• Practice-oriented musicology (ansatt.nmh.no)

NordART works with projects based on musical practices that open up a diverse view of music and can contribute to new knowledge. Fellows and faculty members focus on themes relevant to the professional environments at the Norwegian Academy of Music and in the music field in general. At the same time, we have focus areas around which we have formed larger research communities.